Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In the year 1977, the Archaebacteria or Archaea, the third domain of life separate from Bacteria and Eukaryota, was proposed by Carl Woese and George Fox. They had analyzed small subunit ribosomal RNA ( SSU rRNA) oligonucleotide fragments from 13 microbes before establishing this proposal. In the late 1980s, the use of SSU rRNA to describe […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Copy number variation is the phenomenon of deviation of an individual from a diploid state of its genome. Normally, humans have two copies of each locus in their genome. Any deviation from this can cause Mendelian disorders. Due to the availability of short-read sequencing technologies, several […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Oral cancer, also known as mouth cancer develops in any part of the mouth due to genetic mutations. The reasons for this could be the usage of tobacco, heavy liquor, or human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Symptoms include a lump or a red or white patch inside the mouth […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia A nucleosome is a DNA segment of 147-bp coiled around a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is made up of two copies of each of the histone proteins H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. It is the fundamental subunit of chromatin. Although it seems that the nucleosome has its significance only in […]
